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Taking a day off..

Posted by Dee on March 28, 2014 at 7:33pm in Home Dairy

Is it ok to not milk 1 day every once in a while, or will it throw everything off?  I don't want to upset the "flow", but if something comes up that you can't get to it will that affect their system too much?  Twins are still with her feeding also.

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  • Deborah Niemann-Boehle March 28, 2014 at 7:43pm
    It depends. As long as she is nursing young kids, you can skip a day or two and it won't be a problem. The older the kids get and the more days you skip, the more of a problem it can be. For example, last year I went on vacation and the person milking the goats did not milk a single goat for two weeks that had one kid or more on her. Many of these kids were 4 months or older, and they do not nurse that much. I came back to goats with half the production they had when I left!
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